Apple announced on Tuesday that the Beatles catalog has arrived on iTunes — and with it, a catalog's worth of bad Beatles puns employed by the media's coverage. (By about 30th time I saw it used in a headline, "Come together" became cringeworthy.)
With apologies to their well-meaning authors, I've collected some of the worst, mostly from U.S. outlets.
Warning: Here comes the puns! Read 'em and (gently) weep:
Help! arrives: Apple lands Beatles for iTunes
— Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple, Beatles Opt To 'Give Peace A Chance'
— Brian Caulfield, Forbes
Beatles-Apple deal: Here comes the sun
— Jon Friedman, MarketWatch
Apple: Get Your Beatles Eight Days a Week via iTunes
— Rj Middleton, NBC (Bay Area)
Apple and the Beatles: A Long and Winding Road
— Heidi Moore, New York Times DealBook
The Beatles and Apple: The Long And Winding Road
— Ian Paul, PC World
Apple and the Beatles work it out
— Sydney Morning Herald
Apple brings Beatles to iTunes: 'It has been a long and winding road,' Jobs says
— John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News
All together now
— Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune
Apples Come Together
— Liam Allen, BBC News
The Beatles' en on iTunes – yeah, yeah, yeah
— Daniela Elser, news.com.au
Beatles, iTunes come together
— Agence France-Press
Steve Jobs no longer Eggman as Beatles hits iTunes
— Kelly Fiveash, The Register (U.K.)
Buy Me Love: Beatles Songs Reportedly Coming to iTunes
— Juli Weiner, Vanity Fair
We can work it out – Apple v Apple Beatles iTunes dispute ends
— Tim Glanfield, BeehiveCity.com
Revolution for Apple: Beatles Come to iTunes
— ABC News Radio
Apple, Beatles Finally Make Beautiful Music Together
— Michael Musco, mediabistro.com
Beatles for Sale! Apple's iTunes Scores Rights to Fab Four Catalog
— Austin Carr, Fast Company
Beatles For Sale … on iTunes
— Casey Johnston, Ars Technica
Apple iTunes and The Beatles Come Together, So What?
— Lance Ulanoff, PC Magazine
And this one, turned in by "Amrit" on the music blog Stereogum, was quite possibly the only pun-employing Apple-Beatles headline that actually worked:
Beatles, iTunes Come Together Right Now Over Zzzz
— Stereogum
